From Master Student To Master Employee

by Ellis, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780495913047
• ISBN10: 0495913049
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Now in its Third Edition, FROM MASTER STUDENT TO MASTER EMPLOYEE will help today's students develop core skills to excel in the classroom and in the workplace. The purpose of this book is to build two kinds of bridges between the classroom experiences and career. One is the bridge of skills--the ability to perform tasks that are valued by employers. Second is the bridge of learning--the ability to update skills and acquire new ones as a lifelong learner. FROM MASTER STUDENT TO MASTER EMPLOYEE helps your students discover what skills they already have, what skills they already use in school are most applicable to the workplace, and how best to apply them. The Third Edition focuses on transferable skills that promote success in the classroom and in a global, knowledge-based economy. Tools like the Discovery Wheel, Discovery and Intention Journal, Power Process articles, Master Student Profiles, and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) deepen students' knowledge of themselves and the world around them. Enhancements include new chapters on Memory and Health; additional coverage of online and adult learning throughout the text; new Master Employees in Action; and a new end of chapter feature titled Focus on Transferable Skills.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mastering Transitions

Master Student Map

From master student to master employee

Textbook reconnaissance

This book is worthless--if you just read it

Get the most out of this book

Commitment

Link to the Work World

The Discovery and Intention Journal Entry system

Discovery and Intention Statement guidelines

Discovery Statement

The value of higher education

Make the transition to higher education

Leading the way -- succeeding as a first-generation student

Connect to resources

Succeeding in higher education--at any age

Discovery Statement

Power Processes: User Guide

Power Process: Discover what you want

First Steps

Master Student Map

First Step: Truth is a key to mastery

Discovery/Intention Statement

Taking the First Step

The Discovery Wheel

Discovery/Intention Statement

Learning styles: Discovering how you learn

Learning Style Inventory

Take a snapshot of your learning styles

Scoring your Inventory

Learning styles across the curriculum

Learning Style Graph

Returning to the big picture about learning styles

Balancing your preferences

Using your learning style profile to succeed

Claim your multiple intelligences

Learning by seeing hearing, and moving: The VAK system

The Master Student

Motivation

Ways to change a habit

Demonstrating Mastery

Master Student Profiles

Power Process: Ideas are tools

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Jerry Yang

Careers

Master Student Map

Choosing who you want to be

Discovery/Intention Statement

You've got a world of choices

The world of work: An overview

Jumpstart your education with transferable skills

100 transferable skills

Inventory your skills

Use informal ways to discover yourself Ways to learn about careers

Dig out the "life story" of a product

Create your career

Create a support team

Brainstorm career options

Sample formats for career plans

Choose your career--now

Gearing up for a global economy

Explore vocational assessments

Testing your career plan--jump into the job market

Gaining experience as an intern

Service learning: Career planning as contribution

Choosing your major

Make a trial choice of major

Discovery/Intention Statement

Power Process: Love your problems (and experience your barriers)

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Lisa Price

Time

Master Student Map

You've got the time

Discovery/Intention Statement

The Time Monitor/Time Plan process

Discovery Statement

Setting and achieving goals

Get real with your goals

The ABC daily to-do list

Choose strategies to manage time and tasks

Stop procrastination now

25 ways to get the most out of now Organizing time and tasks at work

Beyond time management: Staying focused on what matters

Master monthly calendar

Gearing up: Using a long-term planner

Power Process: Be here now

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Richard Anderson

Memory

Master Student Map

Take your memory out of the closet

Discovery/Intention Statement

The memory jungle

Memory techniques

Critical Thinking Exercise: Remembering your car keys--or anything else

Mnemonic devices

Critical Thinking Exercise: Get creative

Critical Thinking Exercise: Move from problems to solutions

Power Process: Love your problems [and experience your barriers]

Career Application

Chapter 3: Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Scott Heiferman

Reading

Master Student Map

Muscle Reading

Discovery/Intention Statement

How Muscle Reading works

Before you read

While you read

After you read

When reading is tough

Building your vocabulary

Reading fast

Relax

Becoming an online learner

Gaining information literacy English as a second language

Reading with children underfoot

Revisit your goals

Power Process: Notice your pictures and let them go

Career

Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Bert and John Jacobs

Notes

Master Student Map

The note-taking process flows

Observe

Record

Review

Discovery Statement

Observe, record and review at work

Get to the bones of your book with concept maps

Discovery/Intention Statement

Taking notes while reading

Enroll your instructor in your education

When a speaker talks fast

Discovery/Intention Statement

Television note taking

Power Process: I create it all

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Faye Wattleton

Tests

Master Student Map

Disarm tests

Discovery/Intention Statement

What to do before the test

Ways to predict test questions

Cooperative learning: Working in teams

Intention Statement

What to do during the test

The test isn't over until... Let go of test anxiety

20 things I like to do

Discovery/Intention Statement, 200

Discovery Statement

Getting ready for math tests

Exercise 19: Use learning styles for math success

Make performance reviews work for you

Intention Statement

Celebrate mistakes

Power Process: Detach

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Al Gore

Thinking

Master Student Map

Critical thinking: A survival skill

Discovery/Intention Statement

Becoming a critical thinker

Attitudes, affirmations, and visualizations

Reprogram your attitude

Ways to create ideas

Fix-the-world brainstorm

Uncovering assumptions

Ways to fool yourself: Common mistakes in logic

Critical Thinking Exercise: Explore emotional reactions

Think critically about information on the Internet

Overcome stereotypes with critical thinking

Examine assumptions about diversity

Gaining skill at decision making

Four ways to solve problems

Define your values

Making ethical decisions

Power Process: Find a bigger problem

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Irshad Manji

Communicating

Master Student Map

Communicating in a diverse world

Discovery/Intention Statement

Choosing to listen

Choosing to speak

Discovery/Intention Statement

Thriving with diversity

Developing emotional intelligence Managing conflict

Write an "I" message

Join a diverse workplace

V.I.P.S [Very Important Persons]

Create high-performing teams

Three paths to clear writing

Mastering public speaking

Safe social networking

Power Process: Employ your word

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Cesar Chavez

Money

Master Student Map

Three paths to financial freedom

Discovery/Intention Statement

Critical Thinking Exercise: The Money Monitor

Critical Thinking Exercise: The No-Fear Budget

Make more money

Spend less money

Show me the money

Discovery/Intention Statement

Take charge of your credit

You can pay for school

Using technology to manage money

Education by the hour

Practicing money skills at work

Power Process: Risk being a fool

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Kat James

Health

Master Student Map

Wake up to health

Discovery Statement

Choose your fuel

Choose to exercise

Choose freedom from stress

Living in balance

Choose to stay safe

Critical Thinking Exercise: Addiction: How do I know...?

From dependence to recovery

Power Process: Surrender

Career Application

Chapter Quiz

Focus on Transferable Skills

Master Student Profile: Randy Pausch

Working

Master Student Map

The master employee

Discovery/Intention Statement

Use power tools for finding work

Rehearse your job search

Tell everyone you know: The art of networking

Write a r?sum? that gets noticed in the digital world

Sample r?sum?s

Sell your r?sum? with an effective cover letter

Sample cover letters

Use interviews to hire yourself an employer

Practice answering and asking interview questions

Finding work in a tough job market

Succeeding as a new employee

Learning on the job

Working with a mentor Adapting to styles in the workplace

Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment

Loving your next job

Leadership in a diverse world

Discovery/Intention Statement

Discovery Wheel--coming full circle

Discovery/Intention Statement

Keep your career plan alive

Translate your career goals into action

Create your next semester

Discovery/Intention Statement 341

Power Process: Be it

Career Application

Quiz

Focus on Transferable SkillsMaster Student Profile: Ruth Handler

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